Time

Official timekeepers add one second to 2008
By: William Atkins

If you think the year 2008 was bad, now you have to put up with it for another second. At the stroke of midnight in London, England, a leap second will be added to the end of 2008. This leap-second addition takes place periodically, with the last one added in 2005.


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Need a 2009 calendar of the International Space Station?
By: William Atkins

NASA has you covered, with the International Space Station 2009 calendar available online. And, it’s lucky the universe is expanding because it (almost) needs to be larger just to accommodate all the information found on the calendar about the ISS and other important U.S. space facts.


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Quantum encryption broken with time travel?
By: William Atkins

The field of quantum mechanics allows security codes to be sent completely free of being detected and read. However, U.S. scientists say they could break these quantum encryption codes with time travel, specifically, wormholes. That is, if wormholes exist?


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Timely warnings from Telstra and Microsoft for early DST start
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Several Australian states will go forward an hour this Sunday, October 5th at 2am, as Daylight Saving starts again for the year, but "watch" out – some of your devices or computers might not automatically make the change. Here’s what to do...


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Stephen Hawking and the giant time-eating grasshopper
By: Davey Winder

One is an inventor who made his fortune from developing the kettle thermostat, one is a world famous physicist who made his name explaining time, and one has been dead for 232 years. Together, this unlikely trio have brought us perhaps the oddest clock on the planet.


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Does extended daylight saving time help?
By: William Atkins

According to a California study conducted in Indiana, extended daylight-savings time (eDST) was supposed to save energy in the United States, but it doesn’t.        
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